Focus On Vision: Awards, Robotics, and Market Growth Projections | July 8, 2026
In this episode of Focus On Vision, Jutine Murphy covers VSD's innovators awards, the IFR award, and the inline camera inspection market:
- Vision Systems Design presented its 2026 Innovators Awards, which recognize pioneering and groundbreaking machine vision and imaging technologies. (Check out the full story and all the honorees.)
- Verity, a Switzerland-based deep-tech developer of warehouse intelligence systems, has received the IFR 2026 Award for Innovation and Entrepreneurship in Robotics and Automation for the new drone platform that features numerous aerial robots that continuously track inventory without the need for human intervention or GPS technology.
- Market research firm MarketsandMarkets projects the inline camera inspection sector of the machine vision industry will grow from $1.78 billion this year to just over $3 billion by 2032 at a compound annual growth rate of 9.4 percent during that time.
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Time Stamps
0:00 Intro
0:20 Vision Systems Design 2026 Innovators Awards Honorees
1:46 Verity Receives IFR 2026 Award
2:59 Inline Camera Inspection Market Projected to Grow
4:13 Outro
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About the Author
Justine Murphy
Justine Murphy is the multimedia director for Endeavor Business Media's Digital Infrastructure Group. She is a multiple award-winning writer and editor with more 20 years of experience in newspaper publishing as well as public relations, marketing, and communications. For nearly 10 years, she has covered all facets of the optics and photonics industry as an editor, writer, web news anchor, and podcast host for an internationally reaching magazine publishing company. Her work has earned accolades from the New England Press Association as well as the SIIA/Jesse H. Neal Awards. She received a B.A. from the Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts.